Barik Chival no Bhagro

 Ingredients:

•  (Barik Chival)  250 grams, chopped
• 2 green chilies finely chopped
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
• mustard seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• Asafoetida
• Lemon juice if desired
• Gram flour (besan) 3 table spoon

Time Required:

15 minutes.

Serving:

2 persons

Method:

• Take a table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard, cumin seeds and let it crackle. 
• Add green chilies and sauté for a minute.
• Add asafoetida, turmeric powder and barik chival cut pieces to the pan. Mix everything thoroughly.
• Keep it on low flame and keep stirring after a while.
• Add green gram flour to the mixture and mix well. Cook for few minutes but keep sauting in between.
•  Serve hot along with chapatti/rotli/dashmi.

Health Benefits:

 Low calorie, good source of fiber  maintain improved blood sugar levels and helps to slow the rate of absorption of carbohydrate.

Zinc vitamin C copper, foliates, potassium and iron carry out many important functions in the body including ensuring normal electrical activity in the heart and utilizing proteins. 

Bonus Tip :

You can add plain curd or flavored yogurt to vegetable while cooking and this will give you different taste. Tomato can be added and you will get again a different version of the vegetable.

Fuel Saving Tip :

Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but also will save wastage of 135gs of gas.

AamRas

Ingredients :

• 5 medium sized ripe mangoes ( I used kesar/lalbag species to avoid adding artificial color) 
• 4 cups of milk
• 1/2 cup of sugar or as needed
• 1 tea spoon charoli (Chiraunji)
• 1/2 cup water
• 4-5 Ice cubes

Time Required : 10 minutes
Serving :4 Persons.
Method :

• Take mangoes, wash, peel them and cut into small pieces.
• Add the cut pieces in the mixer and blend with milk and sugar. Add little bit water.
• Serve chilled with bapodi (aamras poli). 

Health Benefits:

Mangoes have high levels of fiber, pectin, vitamin C help to lower serum cholesterol levels, vitamin A promotes good eyesight, prevents cancer.

Bonus tip : If you want some variation in taste, you can add 1 tea spoon of ghee in it.  This will not only give the variation in the taste but also will help to weight gain.

Fuel saving tip - If you soak mango pieces in milk for few minutes, it will take lesser time and electricity to blend.

Cow Pea - Black Eyed Peas (Chawali Bhaji)

Ingredients:

• Cow Pea - Black eyed peas beans (Chawali)  250 grams, chopped horizontally or vertically as desired.
• 2 green chilies finely chopped
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
•  mustard seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• Asafoetida
• Lemon juice if desired
• ½ table spoon sugar if desired
• Coriander leaves

Time Required:

15 minutes.

Serving:

2 persons

Method:

• Take a table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard, cumin seeds and let it crackle. 
• Add green chilies and sauté for a minute.
• Add asafoetida, turmeric powder and chawali cut pieces to the pan. Mix everything thoroughly.
• Keep it on low flame and keep stirring after a while.
• Add coriander leaves, lemon juice (if desired), sugar (if desired). Cook for few minutes but keep sauting in between.
•  Serve hot along with chapatti/rotli/dashmi.

Health Benefits:

  Low calorie, good source of fiber  maintain improved blood sugar levels and helps to slow the rate of absorption of carbohydrate.

Zinc vitamin C copper, foliates, potassium and iron carry out many important functions in the body including ensuring normal electrical activity in the heart and utilizing proteins. 

Bonus Tip :

You can add ground nut powder to vegetable while cooking and this will give you different taste. Tomato can be added and you will get again a different version of the vegetable.

Fuel Saving Tip :

If you soak the vegetable in water for some time before cooking, it will require lesser time and energy to cook. Also, you can use the water used for soaking for making daal or other vegetables.

Dashmi

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour 3 cups
• Oil
• Salt 1/2 tea spoon
• Water 2 cups

Time Required:

20 minutes.

Serving:

2 persons

Method:

• Take the flour in a wide plate; add a pinch of salt and 1 table spoon of oil in it.
• Add water and knead into the soft dough.
• After making soft dough, keep it aside for few minutes.
• Put flat pan - skillet (tawa) on the gas stove on medium flame.
• Take small portion of dough and make little loi (small disc).
• With the help of chakla and belan (roller-rolling pin and wooden platform), make small rotis (thin disc).
• After tawa is heated, put roti on the pan.
• After roti is slightly hot, turn it on other side.
• Once other side is hot, put ¼ tea spoon of oil on roti, spread it over the roti and turn the side.
• Press the roti on all the sides so that oil is spread all over the roti evenly.
• Put it roti on other side, add little oil, spread over and press all the sides.
• Dashmi is ready.
• Serve hot along with vegetable, dal, pickle etc.

Health Benefits:

Made up of whole wheat flour which are filled with fibers  rich in carbohydrates  soluble fiber and proteins which boost body energy, increase blood circulation. Easy to digest dashmi prevents constipation. High energy, low calorie food, it influences vata and pitta doshas in positive manner and helps reducing weight. Vitamin E, selenium and fiber present in whole wheat dashmi is said to lower the risk of cancer and heart diseases. 

Bonus Tip :

You can add milk or paneer water while making dough, which will make dough softer and healthier. Keeping dough after kneading for half an hour will make soft dashmis.

Fuel Saving Tip :

Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but also will save wastage of 135gs of gas. 

Tomato Soup

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes 7 medium sized
  
• Cinnamon (dalchini)
• Ginger
• Bay leaf (Tejpatta)
• Kalmi
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
• Pure ghee 1 table spoon
• Salt as required
• Turmeric powder
• Asafoetida 1 tea spoon 
• 1 red chili
• 10-15 grapes washed
• Jaggery powdered 3 tablespoon  
• Coriander leaves finely chopped for garnishing

Time Required:

15 minutes.

Serving:

4 persons

Method:

• Wash the tomatoes and boil them in a pan.
• Put them in cold water and peel the skin. Adding in cold water will make it easy to peel the skin.
• Blend the tomatoes and washed grapes to become soft puree.
• Filter the puree with big funnel.
• Take a table spoon of ghee in a pan and add cumin seeds, red chilly broken into 2-3 parts, bay leaf (tejpan) and let it crackle. 
• Add Asafoetida and  5 cups of water and let it boil.
• After it starts boiling, add the tomato-gravy to the pan.
• Add kalami, salt, jaggery and let it boil.
• After 5 minutes, garnish with coriander leaves.
• Soup is ready to take in it bowl.
• Serve hot along with Khichdi or Rice.  It is good for patients also. 

Health Benefits:

Rich source of vitamin A,C, K, foliate and potassium, low in calories and fat-free tomatoes provide thiamin, niacin, vitamin B6, magnesium, phosphorus and copper.

Eating tomatoes daily protects against high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes and heart diseases. Moreover, we can call it as youth beauty fruit since tomatoes make skin look great. Lycopene in it makes skin less sensitive to UV light damage which is main cause of fine lines and wrinkles. Beta carotene helps protect skin against sun damage.

Bonus Tip :

You can add black pepper and curry leaves which will give you different taste. 

Fuel Saving Tip :

Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but also will save wastage of 135gs of gas.

Calabash - Bottle Gourd (Lauki) Dosa

Ingredients :

• Bottle gourd 1 medium sized
• Rawa
• Green chilies 3 finely chopped
• Oil
• salt to taste
• coriander leaves finely chopped

Time Required : 20 minutes
Serving : 2 persons

Method :

• Take the bottle gourd, wash, peel and grate it.
• Take the rawa, add grated bottle gourd, green chilies,  coriander leaves, water, salt to taste and make a smooth batter. It should not be very much watery or very much thick.
• Take a pan (non stick if possible), grease it with oil and put on the high flame.
• Add batter to it to form a dosa.
• Cover the lid and keep it for 2 minutes on sim flame. ( If you are not doing multitasking, like I usually do, you can keep it on high flame for a minute). 
• If its brown on the back, turn the side, put little oil and cook for a while.
• Serve hot with green chutney, tomato sauce/ghee as preferred.

Health Benefits :
Bottle gourd which is low in calories and fats and rich in essential minerals, iron, proteins, high in fiber is having the health benefits as preventing fatigue and excessive loss of thirst, preventing constipation and dehydration relaxing, curing jaundice.

Bonus tip :  You can add rice floor/besan/wheat floor to make  the batter which will make it more healthy and you will get different taste as well.

Fuel Saving Tip : If you keep aside the batter for some time say half an hour, you will require less time/energy to cook the dosa.

Calabash - Bottle Gourd (Lauki) Halwa

Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle gourd  1 medium sized 
  
• 6 cups of milk
• 1/2 cup of sugar or as needed
• 1 tea spoons cardamom powdered
• 2 tea spoons almonds thinly sliced
• 2 tea spoons cashew nuts thinly sliced
• 1 tea spoon charoli (Chiraunji)
•  1 tea spoon muskmelon seeds
• 3-4 threads of saffron (kesar)
• 1 pinch of edible green color (if desired)

Time Required : 30 minutes
Serving :4 Persons.
Method :

• Take bottle gourd, wash, peel and grate it.
• Take grated bottle gourd, milk and cardamom powder in the pan and bring it to boil. Once started boiling, put the gas on sim flame. 
• Stir continuously for 20 minutes.
• Add sugar, green color and let sugar dissolve completely. Keep stirring.
• Add almonds, cashew nuts, charoli, muskmelon seeds, saffron threads and keep on sim for 5 minutes.
• Halwa is ready to serve.
• You can either serve it hot or it can be served as chilled too, as per personal choice.

Health Benefits :

Bottle gourd which is low in calories and fats and rich in essential minerals, iron, proteins, high in fiber is having the health benefits as preventing fatigue and excessive loss of thirst, preventing constipation and dehydration relaxing, curing jaundice.

Bonus tip : If you want some variation in taste, you can add 1 tea spoon of ghee in it. For softer halwa, over cooked calabash.

Fuel saving tip - If you put a lid on pan, it will take lesser gas to cook. But don't forget to stirring.

Raw Banana Chips

Ingredients:

• Raw bananas 1 dozen
• Thin rawa 3 table spoons
• Turmeric powder 1 table spoon
• Red chilly powder 1 table spoon
• Oil
• Salt to taste
• Chaat masala

Time Required :

Preparation time - 30 minutes

Cooking time – 15 minutes

Serving : NA

Method :

• Take the bananas and peel them.
• Cut them into horizontal or vertical thin slices. Horizontal slicing will give you round chips while vertical will give you long vertical slices.
• Add the chips in salty water. Please note this water should not contain much salt since, that will remain as taste on chips and later chips may become over-salty. This will make bananas less greasy and prevents them from turning black.
• Take little rawa, turmeric powder, red chilly powder and salt and mix well.
• Take banana slices out from salty water and drain. Mix slices with the mixture.
• Take oil in a pan and heat it.
• Fry the banana slices till they become crispy.
• Take out and apply chaat masala.
• Chips are ready to store in a box.
• Chips can be taken out anytime from the storage and can be eaten with tomato ketchup.

Health Benefits :

Rich source of fiber, bananas are useful for prevention of constipation, depression, morning sickness and   Extremely high in potassium and low in salt, bananas make perfect remedy to beat blood pressure, pms problems.

Bonus tip :   After frying chips, put them on tissue papers/newspaper so that it will absorb excessive oil.

Fuel Saving Tip :  

While frying, it is better to use neutral flavored oil like peanut oil or safflower. Butter and extra virgin olive oil burn at very lower temperature. 

Okra (Bhendi) vegetable

Ingredients:

• Okra (Lady finger or Bhendy)  250 grams, chopped horizontally or vertically as desired.
• 3 green chilies finely chopped
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
  
• mustard seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• Asafoetida
• Lemon juice if desired
• ½ table spoon sugar if desired
• Coriander leaves

Time Required:

15 minutes.

Serving:

2 persons

Method:

• Take a table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard, cumin seeds and let it crackle. 
• Add green chilies and sauté for a minute.
• Add asafoetida and okra cut pieces to the pan. Mix everything thoroughly.
• Keep it on low flame and keep stirring after a while.
• Add turmeric powder, coriander leaves, lemon juice (if desired), sugar (if desired). Cook for few minutes but keep sauting in between.
•  Serve hot along with chapatti/rotli/dashmi.

Health Benefits:

Okra is low calorie vegetable, rich source of dietary fiber, iron, calcium,  magnesium, vitamin A, B-6, C, K,  and anti-oxidants.

Bonus Tip :

You can add plain curd or flavored yogurt to vegetable while cooking and this will give you different taste. Boiled raw banana pieces also can be added to the vegetable. 

Fuel Saving Tip :

Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but also will save wastage of 135gs of gas.

Pohe (Beaten Rice)

Ingredients:

• Beaten/Flattened Rice 3 cups (thick)
  
• 3 green chilies finely chopped
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
• mustard seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• Asafoetida
• 1 Lemon
• ½ table spoon sugar
• Coriander leaves
• Curry leaves washed
• 2 tablespoons Groundnuts/peanuts
• 1 Tomato finely chopped
• Barik shev (nylon shev)
• Coconut grated

Time Required:

15 minutes.

Serving:

2 persons

Method:

• Wash the rice flakes (poha) in cold water and add turmeric powder, salt and sugar to poha and keep it aside.
• Take a table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard, cumin seeds and let it crackle. 
• Add pea-nuts, green chilies, tomato pieces and curry leaves and sauté for a minute.
• Add asafetida and poha to the pan. Mix everything thoroughly.
• Keep it on low flame and cover the lid of pan. You can add little water to lid of pan, to generate steam.
• Add coriander leaves, lemon juice and garnish with barik shev and coconut.
• Serve hot along with hot tea.

Health Benefits:

Beaten rice contains carbohydrates and it's low in calories. It is ideal light snack which is easy to digest.

Bonus Tip :

You can add plain curd or flavored yogurt to poha while soaking and this will give you different taste. Boiled raw banana pieces also can be added to the poha and that will be different version.

Fuel Saving Tip :

Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but also will save wastage of 135gs of gas.

Spinach Palak Dosa

 Ingredients :

• Spinach leaves 1 bowl 
• Wheat flour 
• Green chilies 2 finely chopped
• Oil
• salt to taste
• coriander leaves finely chopped

Time Required : 20 minutes
Serving : 2 persons

Method :

• Take the washed spinach leaves and blend them in a paste. 
• Take the rawa, add grated bottle gourd, green chilies,  coriander leaves, water, salt to taste and make a smooth batter. It should not be very much watery or very much thick.
• Take a pan (non stick if possible), grease it with oil and put on the high flame.
• Add batter to it to form a dosa.
• Cover the lid and keep it for 2 minutes on sim flame. ( If you are not doing multitasking, like I usually do, you can keep it on high flame for a minute). 
• If its brown on the back, turn the side, put little oil and cook for a while.
• Serve hot with green chutney, tomato sauce/ghee as preferred.

Health Benefits :   

Eating spinach in diet regularly helps prevent iron deficiency, anemia , weakening of bones, cardiovascular diseases.
Cooking spinach increases its health benefits. Human body can not completely break down the nutrients found in raw spinach by itself  and that's the reason half cup of cooked spinach will give us thrice as much nutrition as one cup of raw spinach. The exception for this is blended form spinach which is considered to be healthiest form of eating spinach.

Bonus tip :   Its better to choose tender little spinach leaves.Larger leaves are more matured and may become tough or stringy. Also spinach leaves in direct sunlight are found to have more nutrients than the ones stored in darkness.
You can add rice floor/besan/wheat floor to make the batter which will make it more healthy and you will get different taste as well.

Fuel Saving Tip : If you keep aside the batter for some time say half an hour, you will require less time/energy to cook the dosa.

Dahi Puri

Ingredients :

• Curd 1/2 cup
• Puris 15-20
• Tomato 1 medium sized finely chopped
• Coriander leaves finely chopped
• Red chilly powder
• Salt to taste
• Chaat masala
• Barik shev

Time required:
5  minutes
Serving:
1 person

Method:

• Take the puris in a dish.
• Add some curd on them.
• Add chopped tomatoes, coriander leaves, barik shev and sprinkle red chilly powder, salt and chaat masala.
• Delicious and healthy Dahi Puri chaat is ready to eat

Health Benefits:
Curd, high in most of the required vital nutritional values, help to strengthen immune system, improves digestive system by coping up stomach problems. Due to high calcium contents, it makes stronger bones and teeth, minimizes the risk of high blood pressure.

Bonus Tip:
If you are preparing puris at home for golgappe/pani puri, the ones which are said to be failed for eating golgappe i,e,  not fully round and are broken can be used to make dahi puris.

Fuel Saving Tip: 
If you are using the items in refrigerator, then please allow some time to reach the item to room temperature. Cold food items requires large amount of fuel for cooking.

Salty Puffed Rice (Mumure/Kurmure)

Ingredients:

• Puffed Rice 250 grams 
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
• mustard seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• red chilli powder
• Asafoetida

Time Required:
5 mins.
Serving :
NA
Method:

• Take a table spoon of oil and add mustard, cumin seeds and let it crackle. 
• Add turmeric powder, chilly powder, asafoetida. Mix everything well and add salt. 
• Add puffed rice and mix thoroughly.
• Puffed rice is ready to store in box so that your healthy snack is ready to eat anytime you want.

Health Benefits:
Puffed rice contains carbohydrates, proteins, iron and low in calories. It don't contain cholesterol or sodium. It is ideal light  snack which is easy to digest.

Bonus Tip :
You can add lemon juice, powdered sugar and  garnish with coriander leaves and you will taste the difference.


Fuel Saving Tip :
Remember you can save up to 30% of gas/fuel if you simply switch on the gas stove only after preparation of all required materials within reach. You will not only avoid the idle flame but  also will save wastage of 135gs of gas.

Chole

Ingredients:

• Chickpeas (kabuli chana) 1 cup, soaked in water overnight
• Tomatoes 3 medium sized
• Green chilies - 4 finely chopped 
• Raw banana - 1 medium sized ( 2 small)
• coriander leaves
• mint leaves
• curry leaves
• coriander powder
• cumin seeds ( jeera)
• mustard seeds
• Cloves 3-4
• Salt as required
• Oil
• turmeric powder
• garam masala powder
• tea-powder
• black pepper
• Asafoetida

Time Required:
45 mins.
Serving :
2 Persons

Method:

• In a pressure cooker, put the chick peas, 2 cloves, 2 black pepper, tea powder tied in a cloth and a raw banana and pressure cook for 15 minutes. 
• For gravy, take tomatoes, boiled banana, coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chilies, cumin seeds, finely chopped ginger, 3 table spoons of boiled chick peas, salt and blend them together to form pureed paste.
• Take 2 table spoons of oil in pan and add mustard, cumin seeds, 2 cloves. 
• After it crackles, add green chilies  curry leaves, asafoetida. 
• After a minute add gravy paste and keep stirring. 
• Add turmeric powder, chilly powder, garam masala, coriander powder. Mix everything well and add salt. 
• After it starts releasing oil, add chickpeas and stir well. Mix all the masala and chickpeas and cook for 5 minutes.
• Chole is ready to serve with Bhature. 

Health Benefits:
Chickpeas a very good source of proteins, iron,  are rich in both soluble and insoluble dietary fiber which is not only helpful for stabilizing blood sugar levels but also controls appetite.
Chickpeas reduce cholesterol which in turn reduces the risk of heart diseases.

Bonus Tip :
You can add lemon juice and  garnish with coriander leaves and you will taste the difference.


Fuel Saving Tip :
Researches and studies have proved than 250 grams of chick peas when soaked over night in water, consumed 22% less fuel as compared to the same quantity of unsoaked kabuli chana. Same applies for daal and rice.

Cucumber Rawa Dosa

Ingredients :

• Cucumber 3 medium sized
• Rawa
• Green chilies 3 finely chopped
• Oil
• salt to taste
• coriander leaves finely chopped

Time Required : 20 minutes
Serving : 2 persons

Method :

• Take the cucumbers, wash, peel and grate them.
• Take the rawa, add grated cucumber, green chilies,  coriander leaves, water, salt to taste and make a smooth batter. It should not be very much watery or very much thick.
• Take a pan (non stick if possible), grease it with oil and put on the high flame.
• Add batter to it to form a dosa.
• Cover the lid and keep it for 2 minutes on sim flame. ( If you are not doing multitasking, like I usually do, you can keep it on high flame for a minute). 
• If its brown on the back, turn the side, put little oil and cook for a while.
• Serve hot with green chutney, tomato sauce/ghee as preferred.

Health Benefits :

Cucumber which consist of 95% of water,keeps body hydrated, reduces cholesterol  controls blood pressure and cures diabetes. It is also known to promote joints health and reliving arthritis pain.  Cucumber skin is good source of vitamin C.

Bonus tip :  You can add rice floor/besan/wheat floor to make  the batter which will make it more healthy and you will get different taste as well.

Fuel Saving Tip : If you keep aside the batter for some time say half an hour, you will require less time/energy to cook the dosa.

Rice Kheer

Ingredients :

• 1 small cup rice, washed and drained
• 6 cups of milk
• 1/2 cup of sugar or as needed
• 1 tea spoons cardamom powdered
• 2 tea spoons almonds thinly sliced
• 2 tea spoons cashew nuts thinly sliced
• 1 tea spoon charoli (Chiraunji)
•  1 tea spoon muskmelon seeds
• 3-4 threads of saffron (kesar)

Time Required : 30 minutes
Serving :4 Persons.
Method :

• Take rice, milk and cardamom powder in the pan and bring it to boil. Once started boiling, put the gas on sim flame. 
• Stir continuously for 15 minutes.
• Add sugar and let sugar dissolve completely. Keep stirring.
• Add almonds, cashew nuts, charoli, muskmelon seeds, saffron threads and keep on sim for 5 minutes.
• Kheer is ready to serve.
• You can either serve it hot or it can be served as chilled too, as per personal choice.

Health Benefits : Rice is a source of carbohydrates, proteins and calories. It also contains amino acids

Bonus tip : If you want some variation in taste, you can add 1 tea spoon of ghee in it. For softer kheer, over cook the rice.

Fuel saving tip - If you soak rice after washing for few minutes, it will take lesser time and gas to cook.